When Helia LaJeunesse was five years old, her mother died. She went to live with her grandmother until she too passed away. A neighbor took Helia in until she was about twelve years old. The woman of the house made Helia do all the cleaning and all of the chores around the house. Helia was verbally and physically abused, and she wasn’t allowed to go to school. Even the neighbors would tell the woman that she was mistreating Helia. The woman would reply that since she didn’t have a family, Helia was an animal, and should be treated like an animal. Not until the community threatened to burn down the woman’s house did she let Helia go to communion class.

Help to close the military facility located in Fort Benning, Georgia; the SOA, now named the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, is funded by U.S. taxpayers and trains hundreds of soldiers from Latin America in combat skills. Many brutal Latin American dictators who have ordered and committed brutal killings were trained in these facilities. www.soaw.org

The Ithaca Wind Quintet’s fall concert will take place on Thursday, November 5 at 8:15 p.m. in the Hockett Family Recital Hall. The free concert will include a wide range of music, including Ligeti, Paquito D’Rivera, Liadov, and Steven Stucky.

Did you know IC has a cool service you can use to build your own student web site quickly and easily? It’s called ePortfolios, and it’s free to all IC students. Once you build it, you can even keep using your ePortfolio after you graduate! The user-friendly ePortfolio tool set makes building your web site fast and fun. Let us show you how in just one hour of training!

IC in DC is a great opportunity to take your education to the next level by connecting theory with practice. Internship opportunities have allowed IC students to do interviews at the White House, attend Senate hearings, create displays for national museums, do research for National Geographic, participate in our federal court system, and much more. There are internships for each major.